I only have about 3 weeks left before I leave, but it feels like much longer - time is going by so slowly! Probably the fact that I don't have that much to do has something to do with it, which has been the case ever since I've been here, but now my patience is winding down since I'm in the home stretch. The problem is, I'm a daytime person, and during the day I am mostly in the house puttering around with nothing to do. Everyone here is really busy with work or school, so I tend to see people only at night if at all. I also have my salsa class, which I've been going to about 3 nights a week in preparation for the festival we're having next weekend. It's a great class, and I'm going to miss it so much, but it's honestly my only regular activity here, and for that I am grateful to be going home soon. It's a shame because I feel like I should be taking advantage of all that Buenos Aires has to offer in these last days, but there's only so much that I can get excited about doing alone.
I still go sometimes to the immigrant ministry, but as the girl in charge - who is also a theology student - gets busier with school, conflicts come up and the hours and days that we are in the office get fewer and further between. This week I spent a couple of hours in my housemate's 6th grade English classroom, answering her students' questions about life in the US. The kids were super cute, and I asked her to talk to her principal about the possibility of me coming in more days over the next couple of weeks, so I can get out of the house a little bit.
Other than that, I've been looking at apartments online, and getting generally excited about moving back to Chicago and having my own space! I hope someday I'll be able to afford to come back to Buenos Aires to visit, but I don't know when that will be. That's become much clearer to me in the last days as well - as I begin to say goodbye to people, I reallze that the only way I'm going to be able to see most of them again is if I come back to visit. The cost of a trip to the US is just way too high for most Argentines to afford, even if they were able to get a visa (which, knowing how awful US Citizenship and Immigration Services are, is not very likely).